canvas stretched on a frame
1Canvas — is an extremely heavy duty plain woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, and other functions where sturdiness is required. It is also popularly used as a painting surface, typically stretched, and on fashion handbags and… …
2canvas — 1. noun /ˈkæn.vəs/ a) A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings. The term canvas is very widely used, as well to denote the coarse fabrics employed for kitchen use, as for strainers,… …
3Canvas print — A canvas print, also known as a stretched canvas or canvas art, is the result of an image printed onto canvas which is stretched, or gallery wrapped, onto a frame and displayed. [ [http://www.fineart.co.uk/Artframingglossary.asp Fine Art Trade… …
4canvas — Commonly used as a support a swatch of canvasfor oil or acrylic painting, canvas is a heavy woven fabric made of flax or cotton. Its surface is typically prepared for painting by priming with a ground. Linen made of flax is the standard canvas …
5canvas-stretcher — canˈvas stretcher noun A wooden frame on which canvas is stretched for oil painting • • • Main Entry: ↑canvas …
6frame — A structure made of parts fitted together. Balkan f. an overhead f., supported on uprights attached to the bedposts or to a separate stand, from which a splinted limb is slung in the treatment of fracture or joint disease. SYN: Balkan beam,… …
7Stryker frame — trademark for an apparatus constructed of canvas stretched over pipes, which allows the patient to be rotated to lie in the prone or supine position; used in the treatment of persons with injuries to the spinal column or cord and those with… …
8paint frame — noun : a large frame usually suspended at the back of a stage and capable of being raised or lowered that is used for holding a stretched length of canvas on which an entire piece of stage scenery is to be painted …
9stretch — I. verb Etymology: Middle English strecchen, from Old English streccan; akin to Old High German strecchan to stretch, Old English stræc firm, severe Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. to extend (as one s limbs or body) in a reclining… …
10stretcher — /strech euhr/, n. 1. Med. a. a kind of litter, often of canvas stretched on a frame, for carrying the sick, wounded, or dead. b. a similar litter on wheels, adapted for use in ambulances and hospitals. 2. a person or thing that stretches. 3. any… …
